Why You Second-Guess Yourself When You're Stressed
Why do you replay conversations and question your decisions under stress? Learn how the stress loop affects clarity and self-trust.
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Why do you replay conversations and question your decisions under stress? Learn how the stress loop affects clarity and self-trust.

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We’re in the eleventh month of the craziest year ever, entering a traditional time of thanks-giving. In some ways, giving ‘thanks’ seems counter-intuitive. With the destruction of life-as-we-knew it and over one million deaths globally at the time of this writing, there seems little to be grateful for. Or is there?

If you’re like everyone else on the planet, you have a critic who lives inside you. And it never stops talking. Sometimes your critic is a perfectionist. Sometimes it’s a tyrant. Regardless of how it shows up, that critical voice does everything in its power to hold you back, keep you down, and make you feel like you’re not enough...